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Example sentences for "century later"

  • A century later, when it was attempted by the Jansenists, in France, to teach Greek directly through the vernacular, the practice was loudly condemned by the Jesuits as impious, because it broke the connection between France and Rome.

  • A quarter of a century later it appeared in Latin, with his collected works, as published by his patron at Amsterdam (1657).

  • A century later, on the recapture of Toledo by Alfonso VI.

  • It is not indeed until more than a century later when we have reached the age of Wycliffe, the first of the reformers and the last of the schoolmen, that the name of any Cambridge scholar emerges upon the page of history.

  • In fact it was not introduced in America until a century later, when in 1841 the soft coal abounding around Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and in the neighbouring regions of Ohio was thus treated.

  • The first edition of the book by Pomponatius, which was the earliest of his writings, is excessively rare, but it was reprinted at Venice just a half-century later.

  • Yet far more remarkable was the example, a century later, of the man who more than any other led the world out of the path opened by Aquinas, and into that through which modern thought has advanced to its greatest conquests.

  • About a century later appeared, at the other extremity of Europe, the second in the trio of theological men of science in the early Middle Ages--Bede the Venerable.

  • French navy against his own judgment; and a century later a great French fleet escaped from the English admiral Keith, through his obedience to imperative orders from his immediate superior, who was sick in port.

  • A century later a greater man than Louis sought to exalt himself and France by the path pointed out by Leibnitz; but Napoleon did not have, as Louis had, a navy equal to the task proposed.

  • In Britain planting was begun, though sparingly, a century later.

  • In Magna Graecia, in the acropolis at Tarentum, are the remains of a 7th century temple and three at Paestum about a century later in date.

  • The church was completed about a century later.

  • A century later, another Jew, Samson Pnie, of Strasburg, lent his assistance to the two German poets at work upon the continuation of Parzival.

  • A century later, the most prominent of the schoolmen endeavored, in the same way as Maimonides, to reconcile divine with human wisdom as manifested by Aristotle.

  • Half a century later, however, the Marquis de Bacqueville actually made such an attempt with a machine somewhat similar to that of Besnier.

  • The novelty and possibilities of ballooning appealed to the French temperament, just as the possibilities of submarine navigation and automobiling did a century later.

  • The portion of a special Survey executed about a century later (circ.

  • This was seen in the peaceful close of the invasion by Duke Robert, as with that of Duke Henry half a century later.

  • Certain historians have assumed that the Americans a century later annunciated a new principle in claiming that taxation without representation is tyranny.

  • A quarter of a century later, when the Board of Trade asked Attorney General Simon Harcourt and Solicitor General James Montague to pass on the validity of the act, they reported that it had been put through irregularly.

  • The burning of Jamestown by Bacon and his men foreshadowed the burning of Norfolk by the revolutionary troops a century later.

  • The spire was begun in 1440, torn down and rebuilt, being finally completed nearly a century later.

  • This resulted in a conflagration from which it had not fully recovered half a century later.

  • Much more beautiful is the Salle de l'Arsenal, built half a century later.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awful nice; being married; century afterwards; century ago; century and; century date; century earlier; century later; century manuscript; century onwards; century since; century were; century work; comes down; could catch; distinct variety; federal legislation; four volumes; great multitude; looking steadily; relative abundance; simply because; sometimes used; treat them; turning point; vast importance